24.What was Esau unable to find?

A place of repentance, the opportunity to change the decision he had made to sell his birthright.

We live in a society in which it often is possible to remedy a bad situation. If we have enough money, or power, or are skillful enough in lying, we are able to force of trick our way out of trouble.

It is not so with the Lord. No amount of money, or power, or trickery is of any help at all in extricating ourselves from the trouble and pain that fall on us when we turn away from the Lord and give ourselves to the things of the world.

Esau made a decision when he sold his birthright to Jacob for some lentil stew. That decision proved to be unalterable. The agony Esau experienced after his appetite was satisfied did not change his situation, nor will our personal agony in the days to come alter our situation if we exchange our birthright in God for the temporary security and pleasures of the world system.